Bill Paxton died on Feb. 25, 2017, when he was 61 years old Caroline Blair is a writer for PEOPLE. She has been writing about celebrities, entertainment, reality TV stars and news for five years.

Bill Paxton holds a strange sci-fi movie record: He's the only actor to have been killed by an Terminator, and Alien, and a ...

This is FRESH AIR. At the Oscar ceremony last night, when Jennifer Aniston introduced the tribute to members of the Hollywood family who had died over the past year she teared up when she said one of ...

Fred Berger, producer of "La La Land," foreground center, gives his acceptance speech as members of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Brian Cullinan, holding red envelope, and Martha L. Ruiz, in red dress, and ...

Bill Paxton was a beloved actor who unexpectedly died after a planned heart surgery. The Twister actor died on Feb. 25, 2017, at 61 years old. Just a few weeks before his death, Paxton explained that ...